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Adrian Block representing Dutch sails up the Connecticut River
They traded for it peacefully with the natives
8000 Indians Lived there before they started cultivating the land. -
Weathersfeild founded my Massachusetts people
Founded by ten Puritans and they were led by a guy named John Oldham which was also a puitan. -
New London Is Founded
It was founded by John Winthrop Jr. He later became the governor of Connecticut. -
Code of laws drawn up by Roger Ludlow and adopted by legislature.
the Connecticut General Court requested that Roger Ludlow “take some paynes in drawing forth a body of Lawes for the gouerment of this Comon welth.” In other words, Ludlow was asked to draft the first code of laws for Connecticut. -
Got the Charter for Connecticut
John Winthrop Jr. obtained it. It was drawn in Indian Ink by Samuel Cooper -
Participated in King Phillips War
Played a very crucial part but also escaped and only lost a few casualties. They got into king Phillips War because his brother killed one of their people. -
Yale University Started
Found by a group of Minister leaders
Moved around for 16 years until they voted to stay in New Haven -
Say Brook passes for Church Govermont
The original govermont failed and they put this one in there temporarily. -
Battle Of Bunker Hill
They were part of the Patriots and they were fighting in the American Revolution against the British Army. -
Declaration Signed
There were four people from Connecticut that signed it.
Samuel Huntington, Roger Sherman, William Williams, and Oliver Wolcott. -
Brass Industry starts in Waterbury
They made buttons and clocks for Connecticut and other Colonies -
Joseph Barber starts Columbian Register at New Haven
In 1911 combined with New Haven Register and continues as Register to present. -
War of 1812
Survived blockades from New London Isaac Hall that captured a key ship was from Connecticut -
Captain Nathaniel Palmer of Stonington is the first American to sight the Antarctic continent
Peter Harvey, a crewman on Palmer's ship, is the first African-American to sail to the Antarctic. -
Got a new Charter after Revolution
They completely ditched the old charter and the ideas that were in the old one and completely mad up a new one. -
Irish people move in.
They built canals and railroads. They also built turnpikes and factories. Their customs made them look very suspicious to the American eye. They also had very different religious so that changed too. -
The Civil War begins
Connecticut sent over 55,000 troops to help the Union cause. More than 20,000 suffered casualties and 5,478 were killed. The General Assembly outfitted 36 regiments, including Irish and African-American units, and Connecticut’s industries produced guns, bayonets, boots, supply wagons, uniforms, buttons, and ironclad warships for the war effort. -
The depression
Thousands lost their jobs and roamed Connecticut in search of work. Alarmed citizens urged the General Assembly to address “the great and growing evil caused by the march of tramps through the state.” -
Capital Building built
The capitol building in Hartford was designed in the High Victorian Gothic and Second Empire styles popular at the time of its fabrication. The name itself comes from the use of decorative wood paneling around doors and windows. -
Manufacturing of automobiles began by Columbia Motor Carriage.
Consisted of four sets of batteries providing a whopping two horsepower. The vehicle had a top speed of 15 miles per hour, could go 30 miles before it needed to be recharged, and had pneumatic tires rated for 3,500 miles. The coach itself used plenty of luxurious materials, including an oak wood frame, a satin roof, and goatskin upholstery. The horseless carriage could be had for $5,000. -
First Law Made Regarding Automobile Speed Limit
On this day in 1901, Connecticut becomes the first state to pass a law regulating motor vehicles, limiting their speed to 12 mph in cities and 15 mph on country roads. -
Connecticut College for Women founded at New London.
The College was founded in 1911, but its history began in 1909 when Wesleyan University announced that it would no longer offer admission to women. At that time, more women than ever were seeking higher education and demanding the right to vote. A committee was formed and towns across the state of Connecticut began offering prospective sites. -
67000 Connecticut People serve in World War 1
Over 67,000 residents of Connecticut served in the U.S. armed forces during World War I. Of these roughly 1,100 died, many from influenza. The 26th Division and African American 372nd Infantry Regiment, both National Guard, drew troops and units from Connecticut. -
210,000 men and women serve in world war 2
with the outbreak of the war, work orders began to pour into the state, quickly ending the Great Depression. Almost 210,000 Connecticut men and women entered the armed forces, and just fewer than 6,000 of them gave their lives to defend our country. -
University of Hartford Founded
The University began as a commuter school during the post-World War II boom when returning soldiers were looking for an education financed by the G.I. bill. The movers and shakers of Hartford recognized a need for a university and brought together three small schools housed in buildings spread across the city, including the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art and the Hartford YMCA. -
129-mile Connecticut Turnpike opened.
Governor Abraham Ribicoff officially opened the Connecticut Turnpike—today the Governor John Davis Lodge Turnpike—to traffic. Ten months later, the last three miles, including the bridges over the Mianus and Byram rivers, opened connecting the Stamford area to the New England Thruway. At the time of construction the Connecticut Turnpike was the longest urban highway in the country. -
Dinosaur Tracts found in Rocky Hills
hundreds of dinosaur tracks were uncovered in Rocky Hill. The first few tracks were discovered by a bulldozer operator who was excavating the site for a new state building when his machine overturned a large slab of sandstone exposing the millions-of-years-old footprints -
9/11/2001 152 Connecticut people killed in the attack
With heavy hearts, residents also mourn 152 victims with ties to Connecticut who were killed on Sept. 11. But particularly Connecticut natives, given the state's close proximity to New York City.\ -
One of the First States to allow same sex marriage
Civil union law intended to provide all the rights and privileges of marriage to same-sex couples, violated the constitutional guarantees of equal protection under the law. -
Second women out of 87 as governor
2nd time a Connecticut woman has taken that oath -- with much of the state rooting for her success is as much a result of the fatigue that permeates this scandal-scarred state as it is testimony to her popularity.
